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general knowledge questions in the form of a quiz along with their answers
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Henry Kissinger (b 1923) |
US foreign policy adviser, he was born in Germany, but fled from the Nazis
to live in the US. He remained Secretary of State under President Nixon. He
helped to negotiate the Vietnam issue(1973), for which he shared Nobel Prize
for Peace (1973) along with North Vietnam's negotiator Le Duc Tho. He was
credited with the Theory of Realpolitik. |
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Henry Miller (1891-1980) |
Contrversial American novelist, author of Tropic of Cancer (1931) and Tropic
of Capricorn (1935) which were published in Paris but banned in USA until
the 1960s because of their frank sexual themes. |
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Homer (9 century BC) |
The Greek writer is considered to be the author of the classic epics The
Iliad and the Odyssey, which rank among the most precious treasures of world
literature. |
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Sir Humphrey Davy (1778-1828) |
A renowned British chemist, Davy invented the safety lamp of miners. He also
discovered the anaesthetic properties of nitrous oxide (laughing gas), the
fact that the chlorine is an element and that diamonds are a form of carbon. |
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